Message: javascript error: missing ) after argument list in execute script

Question

When I run the following:

self.driver.execute_script("document.getElementByXpath('//input[@id='someid']').value='someValue';

It gives an error

selenium.common.exceptions.JavascriptException: Message:
javascript error: missing ) after argument list

You missed a parenthesis after the semi-colon, and you have to change the single quote to double-quotes ("string" instead of 'string') in one of the places. — The Amateur Coder
– The Amateur Coder, Commented Jul 10, 2022 at 15:22

trincot · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-10 15:19:55Z

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You are using the same kind of quote in two different levels of parsing, and so '//input[@id=' is interpreted as one string literal, after which someid is unexpected.

Change:

document.getElementByXpath('//input[@id='someid']')

To:

document.getElementByXpath('//input[@id=\"someid\"]')

answered Jul 10, 2022 at 15:19

trincot

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